Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-02-19 10:35, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 09:16 +0100, Patrick Asselman wrote:
>> Still, I can't help but wonder if there isn't a single soul on this
>> list who regularly visits the local coffeebar and can tell OP how to
>> easily get to the login page of their wifi hotspot?
>
> Well in my case, public wifi has been "just working" these many years
> since, on many and varied flavours of Linux including the last mumble
> versions of Ubuntu. Open and restricted wifi, too. So my own gut 
> feeling
> says that something on his computer is misconfigured or broken. Gut
> feelings are no use though - what's needed are facts. If he is 
> unwilling
> or unable to do what's needed to get him closer to a solution, then 
> he
> needs to hire someone who can do it for him.
>
> This is, after all, basically a self-help group.
>
> Regards, K.
>

This is useful information. So things should just work. That means 
something is broken, which was probably not clear to the OP.

Then indeed I agree with Avi, the OP should either help in finding out 
what exactly is wrong, reinstall, or take his laptop to someone who can 
fix it for him.

Regarding the garage anology: I can imagine people see this mailing 
list as the 'garage' since it is meant to support Ubuntu users.

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman